Ornamental button.



PATENTED DEG. 19,-1905,

F. B. STANLEY. f ORNAMENTAL BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1905.

UNITED s'ra'rns gnr OFFICE.

FREDERICK E. STANLEY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF VVATERBURY, CONNECTI- CUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1905.

Application filed m 22.1905. Serial No. 270,841.

To ail whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. STAN- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ornamental Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

There are used on boys trousersbands buttons which are purely ornamental without serving any purpose as fastenings, but nevertheless required and used extensively in the trade. These have been fastened on by various means. A simple and eflicient fastening that will hold the button close to the garment is desirable, and the object of this invention is to provide such a button.

The invention consists of a button having a prong-fastener whose prongs are cut diagonally from a plate, which is provided with a suitable cap to form a button finish, the prongs standing at right angles to the plate and their vertical axes brought into a plane perpendicular to the plate and to the prongs, so that the button may be'attached to a garment without bunching up the fabric, and whereby the button is adapted to be set by machinery, as I will proceed now more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, and in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a cross-section of the button affixed to a piece of fabric. Fig. 2 is a perspective view looking at the bottom. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is a side elevation. Fig. 5 is a side elevation at right angles to Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the fastener, detached, in process of manufacture. Fig. 7 is a plan view of Fig. 6 with the prongs bent out at right angles. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of Fig. 7, and Fig. 9 is an end elevation of Figs. 7 and 8. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the fastener. I

The cap 1 may be of metal, ornamented in any suitable way, as by embossing its face at 2 to represent cloth and at 8 to represent stitches, and it has a raised rim 4, flanged down over the fastener-plate 5. This fastener-plate is provided with prongs 6 and 7, which stand olf from it at right angles, as shown, and are passed through the cloth and rolled back or curled in toward each other, as in Fig. 1, to fasten the button to the garment.

In the manufacture of these fasteners a plate of metal of proper size and outline is provided with parallel slits 8 and 9, and the portion of the metal between these slits is slit diagonally at 10 to form the prongs 11 and 12, which are then bent out at right angles to the plate. As thus formed the points of the prongs are necessarily in parallel planes perpendicular to the plate, as shown in Figs. 7 to 9, instead of being in a singleplane, as shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5, and 10, and were the device used with the prongs arranged as in Figs. 7 to 9 the prongs would tend to twist in the setting-tool, and thus distort or bunch the material of the garment and make an unsightly finish. It is therefore desirable to bring the prongs into a single plane, and this I do by bending them laterally toward each other by a suitable machine, so that instead of the prongs standing up in the different planes, as shown in Figs. 7 to 9, they are brought into the same plane, and this plane is perpendicular to the plate and to the prongs and is coincident with the vertical axes of the prongs, as shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5, and 10, and when so arranged they may be driven straight through the fabric and rolled back or curled in toward each other, as in Fig. 1, without twisting and without distorting the garment and so as to, bring the button into a smooth or even and close contact with the fabric.

As shown, the edges 13 of the plate are flanged upwardly, so as to afford a better grip thereon for the cap.

What I claim is An ornamental button, comprising a cap and a plate attached thereto and provided with prongs cut diagonally from the plate,

bac upon themselves by suitable means in l attaching the button to a garment.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of July, A. D. 1905. FREDERICK E. STANLEY.

Witnesses:

T. R. HYDE, Jr.,

FRANK WARNER. 

